Word: hurtfulness
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...Rotator cuff tears, herniated discs, torn knee ligaments and cartilages are just like this; the same abnormality that hurts some folks doesn't hurt others. Over 80% of asymptomatic adult volunteers (people with no pain at all) who let us do an MRI of their necks were found to have abnormalities - like disc herniations and bone spurs - that we commonly operate on in symptomatic patients. The rotator cuff, my particular expertise, is even more mysterious. When it's torn and symptomatic, there is measurable weakness. A big, symptomatic tear often makes it impossible even to raise...
...does the same problem hurt one person and not the next? Here is the greatest mystery of my profession. As doctors, especially in my field of orthopedic surgery, we like to act as if we understand things like this - but we don't. It's a really interesting question because whoever answers it can turn a Sean into a Bob - getting the pain to go away without doing the operation - and this would be a minor miracle. We do have some tantalizing tips, though, about what makes things hurt...
...orthopedist who has seen a lot of tough older men with painless, yet arthritic joints, I'm suspicious of there being a peripheral pain blockade that sometimes occurs around joints that are simply not given a chance to rest when they hurt. These are the ones who when asked "Don't you have any pain? say something like "not really but what does it matter, I still have to work to put the food on the table." I don't think it can be a central blockade because it's always there; mental or brain level suppression would be more...
...from the Israeli authorities. It has been a while since the phone rang. "When they have information, they tell us," says Eldad's older brother. "Right now they have none. Since they were captured, we have heard nothing about their condition. We don't know if they are hurt. We are pleading with everybody to give us some sign of life...
...flamboyant campaign against the regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; senior ministers are in thrall, if that's the right word, to his charm, moxie and talent to infuriate. Trujillo, however, is doing what he was hired to do: get the best deals possible for Telstra shareholders, hurt the competition and revamp the company for growth. The market has yet to applaud his efforts...